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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Pea wasn’t the hero Lorrie needed. He was the hero she deserved.
  2. I’m pathologically extroverted. Some times it’s a curse, but the blessing is that it kept me from the factors that breed social isolation and all its misgivings
  3. I think it’s something like that and add unequal revenue sharing in the Big 10/SEC. Purdue and Vanderbilt can stay in the fold but they aren’t getting tOSU/Texas $$
  4. Or, hear me out, just keep letting the Big 12 and ACC participate but with less money. Its not that complicated.
  5. There is a level of narcissism inherent in believing you should be president.
  6. Deion is a raging narcissist. Trump is a raging narcissist. Neither of those statements is political in any fashion.
  7. I don't think it would be all that different than a certain ex President who happens to be running again.
  8. This thread is no place for the timid. I have a buddy who reacts this way to them, so any time we'd be at a bar where they were behind the counter, I'd order several and eat them in the most sensual/grotesque fashion possible.
  9. Wait, you guys seriously haven't heard of pickled gizzards? Are they just a Midwestern thing or something? They're one of the world's greatest bar snacks. These are the best
  10. My opinion is that said overreaction was as a result of Catholic repression and using it as an example of how deep and powerful that shit can be.
  11. You’ve inspired me to grab some pickled gizzards tomorrow and make a cold gizzard sammich for supper.
  12. Are you team child abuse or team justifiable intervention? The line was frequently blurred in German Catholic families for a very long time. My grandpa got kicked by a horse when he was 8, and it shattered his hip. His parents dropped him off at the children’s hospital in Iowa City, which was a 4 hour drive to the southeast in those days. He was laid up there for 9 months. His parents never visited. About 4 months in, he wrote them a letter. He got a letter back from his grandparents (in German) that instructed him not to be so needy because his parents were busy on the farm and caring for his other 4 siblings. I come from very hard people. My dad’s generation made a lot of progress breaking that cycle. My generation is trying to finish the job.
  13. Catholic sexual repression is very real. Especially about masturbation.My grandma knocked my dad out with a rolling pin when he was in grade school because she thought he was jerking off at the dinner table. He claims he was just scratching. My grandma denies it ever happened but at least one of my uncles remembers.
  14. Best meat I’ve ever grilled was backstrap from a doe shot in Allamakee County, Iowa.
  15. Exactly. Just get out of the way and let them be themselves.
  16. You're definitely doing the right thing there, IMO. One of my best friends is pretty sure his daughter's gay, and I think he's probably right. He and his wife have 0 hang ups with it so I'm sure that she'll be pretty comfortable coming out if that's actually the case. She's also 12. His older brother is gay, and his parents did not handle it well (Baby Boomer Czech/Irish Catholics from northeast Iowa, so no shit, right?), so he's kind of a got a model for what not to do. Good luck and I hope you're daughter is comfortable in being her authentic self.
  17. I agree with that assessment completely. I guess if we're early in the season in '25 (which would be awesome because I could make it to Boulder) I would reduce my confidence.
  18. Ancient history my friend. We haven't played since Obama's first term. And it's nothing against the Buffs, just Prime. Who do you think would have won between ISU and Colorado last year?
  19. I don't know that there is either, I was just riffing. This isn't exactly settled science, but more what the terms conjure in my mind. Agree on the body count thing. I don't think I've ever taken anyone's virginity, and I'm kinda glad in hindsight.
  20. There are a lot of these guys around here. You see any lifetime bachelor over the age of 40 and I guarantee that they're a closeted gay man. Unless of course they've always had female companions and just been unwilling to marry them. I mean 0 feminine companionship when I say "bachelor".
  21. I just want this shit show to hang on for one more year so we get a chance to wax them.
  22. I absolutely would have died as a single man post college.
  23. First 3.5 years of college were my real "go" time. Met my wife right at the start of 2nd semester senior year and we've been together since then. I had a lot of fun in what was in retrospect a fairly short window. And thankfully that window (2003-2007) was prior to constant videos of everything.
  24. That guy legit had the best arm talent I've ever seen in Ames. $.10 brain, unfortunately. Fairly mobile too.
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